minister

Definitions

vministerattend to the wants and needs of others"I have to minister to my mother all the time"

nministerthe job of a head of a government department

nministera person authorized to conduct religious worship"clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches"

nministera diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador

nministera person appointed to a high office in the government"Minister of Finance"

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Exit the Ministering Angel

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Interesting fact:
In 1963, Mister Rogers was ordained as a Presbyterian minister

MinisterA representative of a government, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic business.

MinisterA servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument."Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua.""I chose
Camillo for the minister , to poison
My friend Polixenes."

MinisterAn officer of justice."I cry out the on the ministres , quod he,
That shoulde keep and rule this cité."

MinisterOne to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs."Ministers to kings, whose eyes, ears, and hands they are, must be answerable to God and man."

MinisterOne who serves at the altar; one who performs sacerdotal duties; the pastor of a church duly authorized or licensed to preach the gospel and administer the sacraments.

MinisterTo act as a servant, attendant, or agent; to attend and serve; to perform service in any office, sacred or secular."The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister ."

v. tMinisterTo furnish or apply; to afford; to supply; to administer."He that ministereth seed to the sower.""We minister to God reason to suspect us."

MinisterTo supply or to things needful; esp., to supply consolation or remedies; as, to minister to the sick."Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased?"

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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Interesting fact:
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister

nministerOne who performs service for another, or executes another's will; one who is subservient; an agent, servant, or attendant.

nministerOne who acts as a medium or dispenser; an administrator or promoter: as, a minister of God's will, of justice, etc.; a minister of peace or charity.

nministerIn politics: One of the persons appointed by the sovereign or chief magistrate of a country as the responsible heads of the different departments of the government; a minister of state: as, the minister of foreign affairs, of the interior, of finance, of war. of justice, etc. These officers constitute the ministry or executive department of the government; at their head is the prime (first) minister, or premier, the immediate deputy or representative of the sovereign or chief magistrate; he and other ministers, selected by him, are called collectively, as his coördinate advisers in matters of policy, the cabinet. Minister is used in most European countries as the official title of all heads of departments, but in Great Britain only in a generic sense (as, a minuter of the crown), the individual ministers being officially designated the secretary of state for foreign affairs, for war, for the colonies, etc., or by other titles,as chancellor of the exchequer (minister of finance). In the government of the United States the title minister is not used at all, and there is no ministry; the corresponding officers, differing from the preceding both in mode of appointment and degree of power and responsibility, are called secretaries (of state, of the interior, of the treasury, of war, of the navy, of agriculture), postmaster-general, and attorney-general, See cabinet, 4.

nministerA diplomatic representative of a country abroad; a person accredited by the executive authority of one country to that of another as its agent for communication and the transaction of business between the two governments; specifically, the political representative of a state in another state, in contradistinction to an ambassador, who holds a nominally higher rank as in general the personal representative of the sovereign or chief of the state at the court of another sovereign. The United States heretofore have sent and received only ministers in this specific sense, called in full either envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary or ministers resident.

nministerEccles., in the New Testament, a servant of God, God's word, Christ, or the church; an officer of the church; an attendant or assistant (Acts xiii. 5): translating διάκονος (whence deacon), but sometimes λειτουργός (liturge) orὑπηρέτης (an assistant); hence, any member of the ministry. The word is used of civil authorities in Rom. xiii. 4-6. In the ancient church minister usually meant a deacon or one in minor orders, the Latin word minister being the equivalent of the Greek διἁκονος. See ministry.

nministerAn officer of justice.

nministerThe catfish, Amiurus nebulosus: apparently so called from the silvery white throat, contrasting with the dark back, and likened to a clergyman's white necktie.

Interesting fact:
In Ireland, a prime minister is a called a Taoiseach

nMinistermin′is-tėr a servant: one who serves at the altar: a clergyman: one transacting business for another: the responsible head of a department of state affairs: the representative of a government at a foreign court

v.iMinisterto act as a servant: to perform duties: to supply or do things needful

v.tMinisterto furnish:—pr.p. min′istering; pa.p. min′istered

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Quotations

George Bernard Shaw

“Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.”

Marcus T. Cicero

“The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.”

Necessity presses upon people as well as on kings: that with which Fouche armed himself to become minister to Louis XVIII.

"Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time" by François Pierre Guillaume Guizot

An installation service is a meeting where all the ministers of other towns come in and say nice things about our minister.

"Captain Pott's Minister" by Francis L. Cooper

PRIME MINISTERS OF CANADA, 1867-1915 .

"The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier" by Oscar D. Skelton

As this was a subject of vital interest to the United States, Canning invited the American minister, Mr.

"The United States and Latin America" by John Holladay Latané

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In poetry:

Thy pard'ning voice I come to hear,
To know thee as thou art:
Thy ministers can reach the ear,
But thou must touch the heart.

"Father of Love, to Thee I Bend" by Augustus Montague Toplady

In the minister's morning sermon
He had told of the primal fall,
And how thenceforth the wrath of God
Rested on each and all.

"The Minister’s Daughter" by John Greenleaf Whittier

Whan years had gane, a printed beuk
Cam' oot, whilk I hae aften seen,
An' it was seal'd, an' it was sign'd,
By ministers a guidly wheen.

"Gran'Faither At Cam'slang" by Janet Hamilton

Christ, and the ministers of heaven,
To all have proper notice given,
And yet how many millions die,
Who heed their words no more than I?

"The Unhappy State Of The Ungodly, After Death" by Rees Prichard

The friend, the generous father sent,
To rouse, and to reclaim him, meant;
The faithful minister you'll find,
Who calls the wandering, warns the blind.

"The Foolish Traveller; Or, A Good Inn Is A Bad Home" by Hannah More

Believe whate'er the minister declares,
If with the word of God it does agree,
For 'tis the voice of Jesus in thine ears,
Or to rebuke, or else to comfort thee.

"An Admonition To The Sick To Call For A Clergyman And A Physician, And To Shun All Charms, &c. &c." by Rees Prichard

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